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LLOYD W. KETRON, M.D.; JOSEPH C. BERNSTEIN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1939;40(6):929-944.

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Periarteritis nodosa is an inflammatory disease affecting the smaller arteries and arterioles. Almost all the organs and tissues of the body may be involved, giving rise to a variable train of symptoms, depending on where the condition has particularly established itself. The vascular changes may result in a partial or complete cutting off of the blood supply causing impairment of function or localized areas of cell death.

Alkiewicz¹ collected from the literature between 1866 and 1933 36 cases in which the skin was affected. In 16 of these there were small macules (kleine Flecken), which were purpuric in 7; in 11 there were nodules; in 15, papules or small nodules; in 7, severe hemorrhages, and in 5, necrosis. In a fairly exhaustive survey of the literature from 1912 to the present we have been able to add 23 cases to those published by Alkiewicz. With over 200 reports in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Footnotes
Read at the Sixty-Second Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Monte-Bello, Quebec, Canada, June 2, 1939.

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